From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a warm, funny and intellectually dazzling call for excess, ecstasy and disorder in an age of sterility and minimalism
TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024
NEW YORK TIMES' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024
PROSPECT BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024
'Scintillating writing of breadth and power' Observer
'Seriously precise and very funny' Telegraph
'A radical and important book' James Wood
Our culture's embrace of minimalism and uniformity has left our souls impoverished. Decluttering has reduced our living spaces to empty non-places; the mindfulness trend has emptied our minds of the thoughts that make us who we are; and the regularization of sex has drained it of unpredictability and therefore true eroticism.
In an age of oppressive sterility and limitation, All Things Are Too Small is a refreshing and much-needed tonic: a soul cry for derangement, imbalance, obsession, ravishment and disorder.
"Rothfeld is unexpected, intelligent, engaging - and clearly delights in her task ... She is a precise, dynamic critic and her personal writing is vivid and insightful" - New Statesman
"Bracing and brilliant ... scintillating writing of breadth and power" - Observer
"Rothfeld is both a seriously precise writer and a very funny one ... All Things Are Too Small vibrates with good phrases and perspicacious analysis" - Telegraph
"These essays spring from a philosopher's voracious, brilliantly synthesizing mind, and from a poet's love for language that leans always toward rapture" - Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness
"Brims over with opulent sentences that are an indulgence in their own right" - AnOther Magazine
"Astonishing, scalpel-sharp ... if intelligent, skilful criticism is its own moral imperative, then All Things Are Too Small provides a commendable model for how it might be enacted" - Review 31
"Splendidly immodest in its neo-Romantic agenda―to tear down minimalism and puritanism in its many current varieties . . . Rothfeld makes her strongest case in her essays' very form, a carnival of high-low allusion and analysis . . . [an] exhilarating ride" - New York Times
"Piquant . . . Rothfeld applies an incisive lens to everything from decluttering and fasting to mindfulness" - New Yorker
"The drama of reading Rothfeld is primarily―thrillingly―intellectual . . . Having just recovered from a dazzling insight, we might be provoked to argue with her (one can imagine she likes it that way), and we are never bored" - Washington Post
"Shrewd . . . The arguments here are delivered with gusto and delight, and eagerly invite heat of disagreement" - Wall Street Journal
"The writing is crisp, reflecting a curious mind and a yearning body" - Kirkus
"Rothfeld has a knack for aphorism ('There is nothing more foreign to justice than love'), and it's an absolute pleasure to watch her idiosyncratic arguments unfold. This is a triumph" - Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Iconoclastic ... Rothfeld's range of reference - from Moby-Dick to Troll 2 - is immense, as is her intelligence, though it's all leavened by a wonderful sense of humour" - Prospect, Books of the Year
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TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024
NEW YORK TIMES' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024
PROSPECT BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024
'Scintillating writing of breadth and power' Observer
'Seriously precise and very funny' Telegraph
'A radical and important book' James Wood
Our culture's embrace of minimalism and uniformity has left our souls impoverished. Decluttering has reduced our living spaces to empty non-places; the mindfulness trend has emptied our minds of the thoughts that make us who we are; and the regularization of sex has drained it of unpredictability and therefore true eroticism.
In an age of oppressive sterility and limitation, All Things Are Too Small is a refreshing and much-needed tonic: a soul cry for derangement, imbalance, obsession, ravishment and disorder.
"Rothfeld is unexpected, intelligent, engaging - and clearly delights in her task ... She is a precise, dynamic critic and her personal writing is vivid and insightful" - New Statesman
"Bracing and brilliant ... scintillating writing of breadth and power" - Observer
"Rothfeld is both a seriously precise writer and a very funny one ... All Things Are Too Small vibrates with good phrases and perspicacious analysis" - Telegraph
"These essays spring from a philosopher's voracious, brilliantly synthesizing mind, and from a poet's love for language that leans always toward rapture" - Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness
"Brims over with opulent sentences that are an indulgence in their own right" - AnOther Magazine
"Astonishing, scalpel-sharp ... if intelligent, skilful criticism is its own moral imperative, then All Things Are Too Small provides a commendable model for how it might be enacted" - Review 31
"Splendidly immodest in its neo-Romantic agenda―to tear down minimalism and puritanism in its many current varieties . . . Rothfeld makes her strongest case in her essays' very form, a carnival of high-low allusion and analysis . . . [an] exhilarating ride" - New York Times
"Piquant . . . Rothfeld applies an incisive lens to everything from decluttering and fasting to mindfulness" - New Yorker
"The drama of reading Rothfeld is primarily―thrillingly―intellectual . . . Having just recovered from a dazzling insight, we might be provoked to argue with her (one can imagine she likes it that way), and we are never bored" - Washington Post
"Shrewd . . . The arguments here are delivered with gusto and delight, and eagerly invite heat of disagreement" - Wall Street Journal
"The writing is crisp, reflecting a curious mind and a yearning body" - Kirkus
"Rothfeld has a knack for aphorism ('There is nothing more foreign to justice than love'), and it's an absolute pleasure to watch her idiosyncratic arguments unfold. This is a triumph" - Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Iconoclastic ... Rothfeld's range of reference - from Moby-Dick to Troll 2 - is immense, as is her intelligence, though it's all leavened by a wonderful sense of humour" - Prospect, Books of the Year
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